Assembly Quote by John Adams

“To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a specific time.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

— George W. Bush

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

— Evan Esar

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

— Alexander Pope

“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”

— Alexander Pope

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown…

— Plato

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

— John Fletcher

“the beginning of wisdom in human as well as international affairs was knowing when to stop.”

— Paul Kennedy

“The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward half-look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”

— T.S. Eliot

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

— Paul Harvey

“Time to pull the plug on the coma of the left, right paradigm”

— Dean Cavanagh